Conoco Buffalo 



107 



Garson, Cdt. Osteal. Mas. Coll. Surg, part ii. p. 2:50 (1S84) ; Pechuel- 

 Loesche, Zool. yalirh. Syst. vol. iii. p. 711, pi. xxviii. tigs. :^, 4 (188S) ; 

 Pousargues, .•/////. Sci. Nat. Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv. p. 83 (1897). 



Bi/biiliis pi/iiiili/s occhlcntal'is, Brooke, Pfoc Zool. Soc. 187:5, p. 48 "5. 



Biilnilus hracliyccros., Bocage, ]. Soc. Lisho/i^ ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 21; (i8go) ; 

 Matschie, ^Vw^tV/z/tw Togogehictes., ■p. 19 (1893); wtr Gray, 1837. 



Plate nil. 



Characters. — Size comparatively small and the build light and slender, 

 the height at the shoulder being about 3 feet 6 inches. P'orehead of skull 

 nearly Hat, without any concavity in the prohle below the horns. In 

 fully adult bulls from the Congo the horns 

 closely approximated at their bases, where 

 they are rugose and much expanded and 

 flattened ; their direction at hrst mainly up- 

 wards, after which they become smooth and 

 are suddenly bent inwards and backwards, to 

 terminate in long slender tips, which may 

 be yery close together, and thus situated 

 directly above the forehead (hg. 21). In 

 younger bulls (fig. 22) less expanded and 

 approximated at the bases, and more widely 

 separated at the tips. In cows the horns are 

 likewise often less flattened and expanded, 

 and more widely separated at the bases and 

 tips ; in some specimens from the Congo they are almost cylindrical, and 

 in most examples from Sierra Leone they are widely separated on the 

 forehead and diverge outwardly more in the manner ot centra hs. 



Hair on the body moderately thick and close, very long on the margins 

 of the ears and the middle line of the neck and back, where it forms 



Fig. 22. — Skull and horns of bull Congo 

 Buffalo, from the Niger territory. 

 (Rowland Ward, Rfconis of Big 

 Garni'.) 



